'I will not be the fool I would be
if I agreed that he
needed to be free more than me, '
as good as declared Shakespeare's Adriana,
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The provisos given,
that the teacher is a she,
the student a he,
and that both are young,
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Fines to be raised to a thousand.
'As the better multi-taskers,
women on the phone in the car risk less.
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In the air but not flying -
an Inuk.
In a badarka -
the kayak of the Alaskan Innuit -
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I thought I'd see
if I could strongly recall
just how green I once was
by going out to the poppies
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'Flaught' rhymes with 'caught'.
A snow flaught is a flake.
A flaught of wind is a gust.
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Dear Nephew,
I couldn't help hearing
a guy of little respect
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What chance is there
that you will see
the rarely seen person
later in the day,
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Because, for the French,
a babine is an animal's lip,
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On the devil's staircase
going down to the beach
you don't count the number of steps;
but you do on the way back up.
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